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Tag: Arts and Antiquities Looting
A Tricky First Case for the Man Who Wrote the Rules on Nazi Looted Art
Few people have done more to advance the cause of people seeking to recover property lost to the Nazis in…
New Research Tracks Ancient Artifacts Looted by the Nazis
When the Nazis invaded Greece in 1941, Julius Ringel, a major general in the German army, took an active role…
In ‘African Origin’ Show at Met, New Points of Light Across Cultures
Object for object, there isn’t an exhibition in town more beautiful than “The African Origin of Civilization” at the Metropolitan…
Michael Steinhardt, Billionaire, Surrenders $70 Million in Stolen Relics
Michael H. Steinhardt, the billionaire hedge fund pioneer and one of New York’s most prolific antiquities collectors, has surrendered 180…
He Sold Away His People’s Heritage. He’s in the Jungle to Get It Back.
As Toek Tik recounts it, he was a teenage foot soldier for the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the…
Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A.
The evidence lockers at the Manhattan district attorney’s office often hold an array of items that figured in the crimes…